The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-05
MRS. MOLLOY AGAIN.
She Comes to the Front with Claim that
Mrs. Graham Is Still Living.

Suo ZONES co me Front with Claim that
Mrs. Graham Is Still Living.
Boston Special in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Was it amurder which led to the untimely death
OF George Graham2 Was it murder that pointed
the finger of scorn at the well known philan-
thropisu What is now coming to the surface
may show that the secret Of Lady Audley" may
have had its counterpart in this particular case.
and pin more closely to the wall the old adage
that fiction has possible chance when truth is
up and dressed and ready for business.
After her discharge, though this technically
returned her good name, Emma Molloy was still.
in the public eye, a questionable parsonage. Her
power for good was gone. for her reputation had
not been cleansed of its faint Determined. if
possible, to retrieve herself before her friends
and the public. she went to work to ferret out
the secret of the mystery that surrounded the
case She believed that George Graham had
died an innocent man, and her friendship for
him urged her In the investigation. When
Sarah Graham was missed it was given out that
she had gone to the Pacific slope to see her
brother, named Gorham Mrs. Molloy had Sc
cured counsel and detectives. and the latter
ferreted out a clew that led to the surmise that
the alleged murdered woman had in reality gone
West, and was still actually in the land of the
| living.
| Gorham is a soldier of the regular army, and
| those interested at once placed themselves in
communication with the commander of the post
where he was stationed. The commander at once
notified the proper authorities of certain informa-
ton in his possession, and the search began.
For eight months detectives have been on the
trail of woman answering the description of
Sarah Graham, a woman who has been in regu-
| lar correspondence with Gorham. The un-
known woman passed as Mrs. Blank. By these
| letters the woman's abiding place was traced to
point in Wyoming Territory. AT that partcu-
lar place was second woman bearing the name
assumed by the one now being run down, and
into the hands Of woman No. fell letter in
tended for No l. The mysterious wording of
that missive aroused the suspicious of the
party into whose hands it fell that she visited
| the postoffce and made several inquiries about
| the person bearing the same name as herself,
satisfied from the tenor of that engmat!cal let
ter that there q mystery behind it. This
inquiry led to the fact that there were two
women in the place bearing the same name;
that the person for whom the letter was intend
| ed was endeavoring to conceal her identity, and
that when she had occasion to visit the office her
trips were made when there was the least chance
| of a crowd being present; that she invariably
| stepped into the Office through side door and
| tried to escape observation, and that the APP
| proaches to that Office were through rear
street Furthermore but short time ago.
| when calling for her mail, having become cogni
| zant of the fact that one of the missives de-
| signed for her had fallen2 into other hands
she was emphatic in her instructions to the post
Office officials not to have her mail matter deliv
| cred to other parties, and stated what postmark
would be the letters which she expected
| would come addressed to her. This woman fur
| Their stated that she was going away and placed
special stress upon the fact that even if she did
| not return for six months, she did not want her
| mail matter advertised-that all would be called
| for in due season.
Now. it so happened that detectives had fol-
| lowed the unknown and mysterious female to
| this particular Office. 1t did not need much fur
| Their skill to put the puzzle together. Only one
| thing was lacking, and this was the proving OF
| identity. Here the detectives were ready, for
i they had picture of the woman said to have
been murdered. This they showed to the post
Office officials, who at once recognized 1t as a
perfect likeness Of the unknown woman, whose
peculiar movements had excited their comments.
, Whose was the body found in the we'll on Mrs.
| Molloy's farm? Conjecture is that II was a
special purpose or taken from dissectine
| room.
There ii was clothed in Mrs. Graham's gar
ments put in the WELL and left to await dis
coyery. If this be true, If Mrs:sGraham still
lives. and the dead woman had como to nat
ural end, there must have been conspiracy
For the superstition that such existed
there has been advanced the affirmation tina
trouble existed between Gorham and his brother
in-law, Graham, regarding division OF spolls
! possibly those of some robbery the pair wer
engaged in before Graham was sent to prison
1t is further affirmed that Mrs. Graham had be
come enraged because her husband had seen II
to bestow his smiles and caresses upon anothe
woman Cora Lee, Mrs. Molloy's daushter-in
law.
that the brother and sister joined in the fou
conspiracy to impl.cate Graham. his second VIII
and his mother in one of the most hearties
crimes that had, apparently darkened the GRIN
inal history Of Illinois, the result OF VINCE wa
: that AN innocent man was taken from the count
J Jail by an Infatuated mob and hanged to tn
nearest tree: that an innocent woman Amos
0 lost her life from the rumored association
: herself with the supposed bruta. murder
q